A bridge over a troubled quarter: Bad Homburg

A crazy idea to solve a problem: in 1901, the newly elected mayor of Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt, realized that to attract residents who would drive the town's progress and modernization, he needed to build a new residential area for them. But where to put the road that would get them from there into town? Music: "On My Way Home" by the 126ers YouTube Audio Library "Hot Swing" by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com Creative Commons Attribution licence Some maps created using data from OpenStreetMap https://openstreetmap.org Chapters: 00:00 This is Bad Homburg 00:39 The problem 02:06 The solution 03:08 Permission and construction 04:21 Renovation and reconstruction 05:23 The legacy endures 06:05 How to get to Bad Homburg --------- Support me on Patreon for access to bonus content and more:   / rewboss   Send letters and postcards to: Rewboss Postfach 10 06 29 63704 Aschaffenburg Germany Please don't send parcels or packages, or anything that has to be signed for. --------- My website: http://www.rewboss.com/ My blog: http://rewboss.blogspot.com/ My Twitter feed:   / rewboss   My Facebook profile:   / rewboss